A-Cruising We Will Go!

This coming Sunday, the wife and I will take our very first cruise ever. Long overdue. And we're going to marry our love of contemporary jazz with our love of the Caribbean by going on the All-Star Smooth Jazz Cruise out of Galveston.

Our host is Brian Culbertson, who has been one of my favorites for a long while now.

With very special guest Boney James, one of my favorite sax players!

And then there will be many, many other musicians on board, among them Craig Chaquico, Down to the Bone, Norman Brown, Candy Dulfer, Nick Colionne, Paul Taylor and many, many more.

The wife has a habit of motion-sickness (yikes!) so we have procured some of the dramamine (or whatever they are) patches. She'll probably do fine. I'll probably be the one to get green.

So, in other words, this blog will probably be a little dark over our cruise. However, they say they will have an internet cafe set up on board. Dial-up speeds? Not sure how much of the cruise I'm going to want to spend poring over a computer keyboard. Hey, anyone have a good suggestion for a book to read while on board? No politics, please. This is supposed to be a vacation.

First stop, after two days at sea, is Montego Bay, Jamaica (been there, done that!),

Next stop is Grand Cayman (never been there) for some snorkeling,

and finally, before returning home, Cozumel (been there) (beautiful).

We're pumped!